An interesting geo-strategical perspective. I'm not sure I agree with it.

If the euro is essentially gutting the European — and again to a greater extent the Club Med — economic base, then Germany is achieving by stealth what it failed to achieve in the past thousand years of intra-European struggles.
Would it be an awful insult if I said that maybe these guys need a history book?


Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
*cries of "we are all the same, with exactly the sames goals and ambitions......" echo mournfully in the distance*
These cries are not in the distance, they are shouted loud and clearly every day by the Eurosceptics. They raise a new strawman every day, attack it with pitchforks and torches at night, and the next day triumphantly cheer its demise 'as they had always predicted it would'.


Quote Originally Posted by Furnuculus
The Germans should be free to be competitive if that is there wish.

The French should be honest about what they mean when they say; "I’m not sure it is a sustainable model for the long term and for the whole of the group." and admit that they don't want to work as productively as the Germans, and resent the fact that the single currency is pricing them out of the market.

The Greeks should have it pointed out to them that in twenty years time their living standards are going to resemble that of an albania peasant more than western europe middle-class, unless they decide they have got it in them to start doing more than electing communists and throwing stones through shop windows.
Oh, I nearly forgot. Do you know which two EU countries are second and third behind fraudulent Greece in budget deficit? You know - countries that should admit that they don't want to work as productively as the Germans?

That's right, it's Ireland and the UK.